Safeguarding Team Manager

North Northamptonshire Council; England; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A local council in England is looking for a Safeguarding Team Manager to lead the safeguarding strategy across educational settings. This role involves managing a team of professionals, implementing policies, and ensuring vulnerable children receive necessary support. Candidates should possess a degree in teaching, social work, or youth work, along with substantial experience working with children. The position offers a competitive salary, generous leave entitlement, and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension scheme

Generous leave entitlement

Flexible working arrangements

Employee Assistance Programme

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Hold a Degree in teaching, social work or youth work.
• Demonstrate knowledge of KCSIE, Exclusion, Attendance, and more.
• Have experience working with vulnerable children.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of safeguarding professionals.
• Be the strategic lead for safeguarding in educational settings.
• Develop and implement policies to improve safeguarding outcomes.

Skills

Team leadership

Knowledge of legislative framework

Experience with vulnerable children

Education

Degree in teaching, social work or youth work

Professional qualification in teaching, social work or youth work

Job description

About The Role

We are seeking a dynamic Safeguarding Team Manager to join our Children’s Services team. This is a pivotal leadership role where you will shape and drive safeguarding strategy across educational settings, ensuring vulnerable children receive the support they need to thrive.

What will you be doing?

As The Safeguarding Team Manager, You Will

• Lead and manage a team of safeguarding professionals with casework responsibilities.
• Be the strategic lead for safeguarding in education settings.
• Develop and implement policies and systems to monitor and improve safeguarding outcomes.
• Work collaboratively with partners including Ofsted, DfE, and strategic groups.
• Oversee responses to safeguarding complaints and assurance letters.
• Manage budgets and ensure financial stewardship across the service.

This is an opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people. You’ll be part of a forward-thinking team, supported to lead change and innovation in safeguarding practice.

About You

• Hold a Degree teacher, social worker or youth worker and be a professional qualification teacher, social worker or youth worker.
• Have detailed knowledge of the legislative framework required to manage this service. KCSIE, Exclusion, Attendance, Children Missing from Education, Children who are Home Educated and Licensing, legislation. SEN Code of Practice 2014, Admissions Code.
• Have substantial and sustained experience of working with children and young people particularly vulnerable children.

Shortlisting w/c 8th December 2025.

Interviews w/c 5th & 12th January 2026.

Should you have any queries, please contact us via email at [e-mail].

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Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We Offer a Vibrant Working Environment With

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill‑health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work‑life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About Us

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

• Customer‑focused
• Respectful
• Efficient
• Supportive
• Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re‑signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk).

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